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Amit BasuChief Information Officer at International Seaways

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Amit Basu is the Chief Information Officer at International Seaways (INSW). INSW, headquartered in New York city, is one of the largest tanker companies providing energy transportation services for crude oil and petroleum products worldwide. Amit is a proven IT leader with almost 30 years of successful track record of delivering organizational growth, performance, and efficiency leveraging information technology. He has over 20 years of experience in maritime IT. Prior to INSW, he worked with Overseas Shipholding Group (OSG) from 1995 and was their CIO between 2014 and 2016. Amit holds an MBA as well as a Master of Science degree in Information Management from the Stevens Institute of Technology, New Jersey. Amit is also a Certified Information Security Manager from ISACA. Amit is a pioneer in maritime industry in utilizing global IT managed services partners as well as garnering the value of cloud computing services. Amit was also instrumental in designing an information security and risk management framework at INSW for protecting information assets against potential cyber risks; monitoring the emergence of new threats and vulnerabilities; timely detection and efficient response to any cyber incidents.

In a world where an infinite amount of data is available at the fleet’s fingertips, it is hard to distinguish what competitive advantages that it can deliver. In this discussion, we focus on the strategies to collect and utilize data to the fleet’s advantage.

Altering perspective to view data as an operational tool

Generic or targeted? Adopting the right strategy for problem solving and trend sourcing through data collection & analysis

Ensuring the right level of instrumentation and resources in place to support data collection and analytics to enable use for operations

What is the chain of status? Working with the supply chain to authorise correct use of data transforming fleet processes

Cloud Computing I What are the different service models? How can the shipping industry benefit from these services?